Appeal No. 1998-0253 Application No. 08/261,252 examiner’s reliance on Hamada to cure these deficiencies is not well founded. Hamada discloses an assembly system designed to efficiently produce relatively small quantities of a variety of different articles. The system includes a moving unit 12 adapted to move around a closed loop track 13, a robot 11 and assembling jigs 14, 14a, 14b mounted on the moving unit, a conveyor 19 for moving trays 20 bearing article components/parts 18a, 18b, 18c, etc. alongside and in synchronism with the moving unit, and stationary peripheral units 21 through 25 located along the closed loop track for performing operations on the parts which the robot cannot perform. In use, the robot moves parts between a tray, the assembling jigs and the peripheral units to assemble and produce an article as the moving unit moves around the closed loop track. Given the lack of any particular relevance of the Hamada assembly system to a method of assembling parts to an automotive vehicle, we are satisfied that the only suggestion for modifying the admitted prior art automotive vehicle assembly line method in view of Hamada to arrive at the -5-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007